Top 100 I Know I Can Quotes
#1. I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.
Jennie Garth
#2. I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.
Madonna Ciccone
#3. I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.
Mary Alice Monroe
#4. I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.
Bobby Lee
#5. I don't know whether other people should or shouldn't pay taxes. I know I can, and I am willing, to pay more taxes. I know I should not get Social Security. I don't need it.
Kenneth Langone
#6. I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.
Jermaine O'Neal
#7. How do I know I can trust you?' she said finally.
'That's the thing about trust.' He crunched an ice cube between his teeth. 'You don't know.
Lauren Oliver
#8. I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why
Jennifer Lawrence
#9. I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.
Hilary Duff
#10. During my most difficult days, I text message God. I know I can just say a prayer and He'll hear me, but just in case He's really busy ... He can read my message later!
Jose N. Harris
#11. So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?
Stephanie Perkins
#12. I do have limits on my money. I like calling my mom to ask, "Can I have that?" Because I know I can be spending my money more wisely.
Miley Cyrus
#13. In my heart and mind, I know I can hit anybody. I'm always relaxed. It's hard to explain. It's like playing with my kids. It feels natural.
Albert Pujols
#14. Little Engine That Could - I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.
Watty Piper
#15. I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
Joyce Rachelle
#16. What's helped me is having really good friends I know I can rely on. Cameron Diaz is one of the greatest friends anyone can ever have. She has so much love to give.
Drew Barrymore
#17. All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.
Richey Edwards
#18. How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.
Jimmie Johnson
#19. The thing I'm trying to ignore. The thing I shouldn't want, the thing I can't have.
And he's standing in front of me right now.
So what do I wish for? Something I'm not sure I want? Someone I'm not sure I need? Or someone I know I can't have?
Screw it. Let the fates decide.
Stephanie Perkins
#20. I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
Michel De Montaigne
#21. I'm extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that ... it sounds, well, I don't care how it sounds - to me, scoring comes easy. It's not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.
Kobe Bryant
#22. I'd be a fool to surrender, when I know I can be a contender. And if everyone's a contender, then everyone could be a winner.
Coolio
#23. I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
Simon Schama
#24. Brittany, I love hangin' with you. Shit, when I get to school I scan the halls lookin' for you. As soon as I catch sight of these angelic streaks of sunshine," I say, fingering her hair, "I know I can make it through the day.
Simone Elkeles
#25. My mother always taught me to be strong and to never be a victim. Never make excuses. Never expect anyone else to provide for me things I know I can provide for myself.
Beyonce Knowles
#26. I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.
Chris Evans
#27. I know I can only do as much as I can do. Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.
Tyler Perry
#28. I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a character, or any character, if I put my all into it. That's the choice you have to make.
Henry Cavill
#29. i know i can't do much, but i can do a little and i'm going to do as much of that as i can.
but if we all do that--
we can make a big difference.
AVA.
#30. When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.
John Steinbeck
#31. I know I can't eat whatever I want and look the way I want, so you need to work for it. I give credit to Pilates and my parents' good genes.
Genesis Rodriguez
#32. The only thing I can't control is the spin in the press. And so if I know I can't control that, I have to let it go.
Taylor Swift
#33. I have been doing this since I was nine years old. So whatever the role is, I am going to do the best I can do. The only thing I am concerned with is stepping on the stage in front of that camera and giving the best performance I know I can give, day in and day out as an actor.
Darius McCrary
#34. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.
Giorgio Moroder
#35. To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
Don Rickles
#36. I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.
Mariah Carey
#37. There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.
Lauren DeStefano
#38. I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.
Trisha Goddard
#39. No, really, what do you like about me? she insisted.
Why?
I figure if I know, I can keep doing it to keep you as long as I can.
Vivek Shraya
#40. I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.
J. J. Hardy
#41. I'm the leader of the show, keepin' you on the go, but I know I can't live without my radio.
LL Cool J
#42. Power Thought: My thoughts are not hidden from God. I know I can change with His help.
Joyce Meyer
#43. I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.
Dave Franco
#44. I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.
Stephen King
#46. I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview "wrong."
Stephen Colbert
#48. I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome.
Jennifer Lopez
#49. I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
Viggo Mortensen
#50. I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.
Clara Hughes
#51. And to be blunt - while I know I can't prove this - I wonder how much of the middle class consists of people in government or protected service-sector jobs who don't actually produce nearly as much as their pay.
Tyler Cowen
#52. I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.
Hope Solo
#53. The thing that gets me up in the morning is that I'm really not ready to see someone that I know I can beat holding my belt.
Ronda Rousey
#54. Who wants a friend who talks about you behind your back? How do I know I can trust you to say good things in my absence when I've seen you cut up a "friend" behind his or her back, only to smile and act endearing when the person unexpectedly appears?
Alan E. Nelson
#55. I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.
Khalil Greene
#56. 'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.
Jeremih
#57. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.
Kari Matchett
#58. I want to win every single tournament because I know I can do it.
Lorena Ochoa
#59. I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.
Mary Oliver
#60. I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.
Dorothy Kilgallen
#61. I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.
Justin Bieber
#62. I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
Jack Nicholson
#63. My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#64. I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
Kaley Cuoco
#65. I seem to see ahead, in a kind of way. I know we are going to take a very long road, into darkness; but I know I can't turn back.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#66. With you I know I can do it, because your my strength, Tru. You make me want to be a better man, a good dad to our baby. The best. And I want to spend the rest of my life taking care of you both
Samantha Towle
#67. What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.
Joe Namath
#68. You've got to figure out what works best for you. That's the hard part. I know I can't play as stoic as Hogan, and I can't talk as much as Trevino. You have to be your own person.
Tiger Woods
#69. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
Kiki Smith
#70. Would you really have ... ?" said Julien.
"Almost certainly," I said. "I have deep-seated problems with authority figures."
"But you are one!"
"I know! I can only assume the universe has a really mean sense of humour.
Simon R. Green
#71. I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.
Nicholas Sparks
#72. I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.
Michael Jackson
#73. I figure J-Lo does all these movies and all these videos and all this other stuff ... I know I can play tennis and act and do photo shoots and model. I know I can do all that.
Serena Williams
#74. I love you," he said again. "I don't expect you to profess any grand feelings for me yet. So long as you give me time, I know I can learn to be worthy of you.
Elizabeth Camden
#75. I know I can't do things like love by halves, I know I have love pent up in me, I shall throw myself away, lose my heart and my body and my mind and soul to some cad like G.P. Who'll betray me. I feel it.
John Fowles
#76. I can go back to my very first movie, Thirteen, and think about that exact moment when I saw Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood do their chemistry read audition together. It just came alive. I was filming it with a video camera and I was like, "I know I can make a good movie now."
Catherine Hardwicke
#77. I'm yours. All that I am, if you want it. I'm not much, but I know I can be so much more with you.
K.I. Lynn
#79. My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
Rafael Nadal
#80. When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.
Toni Braxton
#81. It's because in this vast world of unreliable people, he is the one I know I can rely on.
Jamie Kain
#82. I know I want to work for my whole life because I know I can't live without music or dancing. But I don't know if I want to be a big star.
Elena Roger
#83. Their youth is touching, but I know I can't be deceived by it. The young ones are often the most dangerous, the most fanatical, the jumpiest with their guns. They haven't yet learned about existence through time. You have to go slowly with them.
Margaret Atwood
#84. I know I can make my mark on this world, and not because of my last name - but because of my own talent.
Alexandra Monir
#85. I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in terms of paint colour I can convey to you my experience of the flower or the experience that makes the flower of significance to me at that particular time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
#86. As I glow in this cold, dark night, I know I can't be a light unless I turn my face to You.
Sara Groves
#87. I know I can't fix you, but I can hold you. I can hold you so tight you'll forget you feel broken because I'll be holding all your broken pieces together.
Jeannine Allison
#88. I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired
Brett Favre
#89. I know it's not fair to ask you to be with me when we can't even sleep in the same bed, but I'll love you better than anyone else could. I'll take care of you and make you happy. I know I can.
Sylvia Day
#90. I like taking parts where I'm like: "I don't know how I'm going to do this exactly but I know I can do it." As opposed to doing something where you go: "There's nothing that I can contribute to this."
Scarlett Johansson
#91. I expect myself to do well. I'm not, like, 'Oh, well.' I'm not in that category just yet. I don't play great golf a lot anymore. I do it every now and then. I finished third in the British Open last year, so I know I can still do it.
Fred Couples
#92. I can't tell you what consciousness is, but I know I can only think when I am conscious.
Debasish Mridha
#93. When will you tell your men the good news?" "Not for as long as I can avoid it." "They're busy-bodies. They'll find out soon enough." "I know." "I can't wait." Friedrich
K.M. Shea
#94. All I want to do is pretend nothing is wrong and avoid it all, for eternity, but I know I can't.
Amanda Grace
#95. As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#96. I know I can cook, but the place where I cook ... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.
Paula Deen
#97. I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.
Imelda May
#98. I'm your best friend ... You've just forgotten. My fault, I know. I can help you remember.
Samantha Young
#99. Don't you see, Delilah?" she asked. "I need to wrap up this mess before anyone else gets hurt. I can do it. I know I can. But we have to leave now, while there's still time.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#100. It would be so easy to let my fate just carry me away ... following this same path my whole life through. But I know I can't. What I do, I do ... with no regrets.
Yuna
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